Sentence examples for painfully while from inspiring English sources

A quarter-century later, New York City is the better for the lessons learned painfully while Mr. Beame was mayor.

That such a restaurant has thrived under sanctions lends credence to the common Iranian gripe that the sanctions have hit ordinary people painfully, while anyone with connections has been able to make enormous sums operating in a closed, illiberal business environment.

Perhaps most painfully, while I was enrolled in seminary studying for the ministry, I was walking back to campus one evening when a local policeman stopped me, made me put my hands on my head and kneel on the ground because "there had been a lot of car thefts lately and I "looked suspicious".

The government's failings are painfully visible, while we take many of its successes for granted.

They were quite a pair: Lisa was painfully shy while her mother talked nonstop.

At present the process of taking decisions takes painfully long, while the implementation takes even more time.

During the hour-long conversation I described my differing work methods as John Banville and Benjamin Black, saying how the former writes painfully slowly while the latter is fluent and fast.

Just as film-makers must edit their sunsets, novelists must use setting, research and description judiciously – in fact, painfully sparingly, while paradoxically conjuring up a sense of place.

The new corridor leading to the Star-Spangled Banner, for example, gives the flag's historical context, but it is painfully cursory, while the corridor leading away from it refers to its symbolic importance with little more than video images.

They'd pooled their talents effectively at first - Adam Boyd is a cracking finisher, if painfully slow, while Wayne Gray is all power and pace, but lacks precision - only to drop off each others' radars in recent games.

He also directed the military to allow detainees who are weak from hunger strikes to meet with their lawyers in the same buildings in which they are housed, and to stop using new transport vans that have low roofs that detainees had said required them to be painfully crouched while shackled.